ARTmonday: Lucie and Simon

Lucie & Simon,  self-taught artists who live in Paris, create photographs that outsmart our perception of reality by staging a quirky view of daily life. Their compositions capture different moods of silent melancholy, in between real life and dreams. Here are 12 images from their Scenes of Life series.

Picture of life, 2008

Last breakfast, 2008

Window on courtyard, 2008

Beyond the sunrise, 2007

The knot of life, 208

The swing, 2008

Alone together, 2008

Missing childhood, 2008

Vertigo, 2008

Beginning of life, 2008

Picture of Julie, 2009

Remember a dream, 2008